In the wake of a spate of fires at battery storage facilities across the state, the California Public Utilities Commission ...

Brian Hackney reports on the environmental impacts of the fire that happened at a Northern California lithium battery plant.

Deep in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive budget documents are proposed changes to public health law that seem to be aimed at ...

President Trump on Monday fired all three Democrats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), bringing much ...

Vistra responds to San Jose State's finding of a heavy metal spike in soils near their Moss Landing battery storage facility.

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The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors received a report by Vistra Energy outlining the response and recovery efforts on ...

State regulators want more control over how battery storage facilities operate as SJSU researchers have found a large amount ...

Battery safety has come a long way since the construction of the 300 MW first phase of Vistra Energy’s Moss Landing Energy ...

The uproar over the Moss Landing Vistra battery plant meltdown that started Jan. 16 has only intensified, as many County and North Monterey County residents seem to have been caught ...

A study by San Jose State University of the soils around the Moss Landing Power Plant shows a heavy concentration of toxic ...

Nickel, cobalt and manganese, found in lithium-ion batteries, increased dramatically at Elkhorn Slough after the fire ...